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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15051)	12/29/2001 8:10:18 PM
From: Stephen O	Respond to of 281500

It's not only New Zealand where the natives did each other in. In Canada the Beothuk were the original native inhabitants of Newfoundland. They were eliminated by the settlers from Ireland and England and the Micmac Indians from Nova Scotia were invited to help. No land claims in Newfoundland to worry about, Labrador is a different story as it's on the mainland of North America.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15051)	12/29/2001 10:31:03 PM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

And some Americans read Howard Zinn, openly question authority of any stripe, and can still maintain sufficient objectivity to acknowledge that Gandhi's methods would be useless against, say, Hitler or Pol Pot, but were very effective against a reasonably civilized UK, whose colonization did introduce positives to the natives left behind all over the world. I mean, we'd lack baseball today if the Brits had not given us that raw root of cricket for us to refine. <GG> But my cheeky example should not undercut my support for your point. British colonization aided modernization, despite its downside. The Western concepts of charity, for example, had British roots.